Month: April 2018

As announced earlier, this blog will host an open space once a month (well, more or less!) to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers, and this is the week. All the standard rules apply — no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill…

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There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or the better productions of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and this is one of them. Over the weekend, in response to a chemical-weapons incident in Syria that may or may…

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This week’s post is the tenth of a monthly series of open-discussion posts focusing on books I’ve written. Our theme for the present is Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth, and this week we’re discussing “The Spiritual Ecology of Initiation” (pp.101-118). I’d like to ask readers to keep their questions and comments focused on that…

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In recent posts here on Ecosophia.net, I’ve sketched out the way that the era of abstraction in which we’ve all grown up has foundered, following patterns that were old before our civilization was born. We’ve talked about the way that the abstract generalizations that started out helping to make sense of on-the-ground realities have been…

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About JMG

John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and currently heads the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn. He currently lives in East Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Sara.

The Collected Archdruid Report

During its eleven-year run, John Michael Greer's earlier blog The Archdruid Report was one of the most controversial and widely cited blogs on the future of industrial society. All the essays from The Archdruid Report are now available from Founders House Publishing in a ten-volume set (individual volumes are also available). Click on the image to go to the publisher's website to purchase.

Into the Ruins

The premier quarterly magazine of deindustrial SF, Into the Ruins publishes speculative fiction that explores futures defined by natural limits, energy and resource depletion, industrial decline, and climate change -- you know, the kind of future we're actually going to get. Click on the cover image to go directly to the magazine's website.